This is reaching. If you read the article carefully, she writes about men also. Show me the line where she says guilt falls exclusively upon the woman.
>Comparable male politicos would
>not have come under the same moral attack from the media, so there is a
>gendering of moralization of housework, but Ehrenreich never discusses the
>gendering of moralism about housework in her articles in _Harper's_ & _In
>These Times_; in fact, her criticism of affluent feminists depends upon
>gendered work ethics. So, in this sense, I agree with Chuck Grimes that
>Ehrenreich is the Martha Stewart of progressive politics, for Ehrenreich
>thinks that housework is a _moral_ issue _for women_, a spiritually
>uplifting testimony to women's industriousness .
Did you skip the part about how much of what we do by way of consumption would be morally equivalent to hiring a maid? Even if your points were true I don't see how this would make her "the Martha Stewart of progressive politics."
Peter